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Fuel System: Gas (Petrol) tanks, Carburators
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What type of fuel do you put in your bike?

Unleaded
74
45%
Unleaded Plus
15
9%
Super Unleaded
69
42%
AvGas 100LL
8
5%
 
Total votes: 166

piecutter
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Post by piecutter » Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:05 pm

Regular unleaded. No point in anything else. I mean, I've got plenty of alternates at my disposal, but what am I gonna do? Win a race? Against what? If I want to go fast, the CB77 will be staying in the garage. Really, when I ride this bike, it's not about performance, it's more about putting a smile on my face, and on those who take notice.

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Post by prima5star » Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:28 pm

At 10 : 1 compression ratio, these bikes should run fine on any gas available, but probably best on Super.

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Post by fastjoe » Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:03 pm

Let me throw in some tidbits here.
100 LL will run just fine in most any motorcycle. It's main advantage is good long term storage characteristics, it doesn't dry up into jet plugging goo. I like to use it for winter storage.
reg 87 works just fine if used regularly, meaning the bike is not left to sit for long periods.
I believe the actuall compression of the CB/CL is somewhat less then 10-1 in spite of the early advertising.
Factoid.... Almost any engine that can run on reg 87 without " pinging or detonation" will not have any performance increase by running higher octane, may actually decrease performance.
fastjoe
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Post by 4shorts » Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:18 pm

Reg unleaded for all my bikes including the FI GoldWing. No ping and runs well.

ChickenHawk
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Post by ChickenHawk » Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:56 pm

i just got by bike, and the guy that sold it to me said to use a Leaded
Additive. that i shouldn't use unleaded. he said the lead is good for the old valves.
is there any truth to this?

LOUD MOUSE
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Post by LOUD MOUSE » Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:37 pm

NOPE!. ....................lm
ChickenHawk wrote:i just got by bike, and the guy that sold it to me said to use a Leaded
Additive. that i shouldn't use unleaded. he said the lead is good for the old valves.
is there any truth to this?

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Post by Ford Guy » Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:25 am

I have a hard time believing that these engines will not perform flawlessly on regular unleaded. In fact I would be a little cautious about using premium or octane additives. It has been my experience that unless an engine is ultra high performance coking or carbon can build up alot easier using anything but 87 octane fuel.

Jon

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